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Well, as usual i kena arrowed by my buddies to attend the WITs leadership course. Because someone pulled out of the course at the eleventh hour, Leonard told us dat there was 1 available slot for the course. Because it was WITs, it meant that in the future, when the Bn decides to come up wif a WITs project, i will be involved in it! WITs stands for Work Improvement Teams. Basically, the most basic idea of this WITs thingy is to improve things or services in camp and i must lead a team to present a project to CO or any higher authority for approval. Well, dat means more work to do apart from my own appointment, whatever that might be.

During the workshop, i met alot of new pple. I stuck wif the 5SIR PCs although i didnt noe them at all. But using my ever so sociable character, i made friends wif them and soon we started talking to each other. I found them to be a nice bunch of pple. Veri funny to mix wif. Quite sure there wasnt those kind of bad company so to speak. Throughout the course, i felt that the workshop was quite useful to me because some of the skills dat the facilitator taught, was life skills i could use next time. For example, to enhance my presentation in the future, Ms Grace Tan taught us several methods to do present my data collected like using the Prateo Diagram. Quite sure not many pple noe wad in the world is a Prateo Diagram haha. I was quite pissed wif some of the people there because they showed no respect to the facilitators. There she was training her best to impart wadever knowledge she had. The poor lady was having a severe cough and flu but yet she still endured to teach us and carried on wif the workshop.
YET..~!!
some people juz hack care and sleep openly, talk loudly during the lecture showing no respect at all. Thank God they were specialists, so i can understand. Not to be mean or anything to the WOSE pple but having come from SISPEC, i noe wad pple are like over there and im sorry, u guys give mi a veri bad impression of specialists!

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Well, i had an interview wif the S1 officer juz now. This interview determined wad appointment i will hold in 5SIR. Once i told him i was planning to distrupt from NS and cannot go for ATEC in FEB 06, he immediately offered mi a staff job. Well, i was disappointed at first because my initial posting was an infantry PC. However, i always haf this regret dat if i become an infantry PC, i will not be able to finish the yr wif my men thru ATEC. All my hard work, bonding wif the platoon, tying down all the SOP will all go down the drain if i hand over my appointment juz b4 ATEC. It will be also very saddening for me because at the end of the day cos i wun be able to see how well my men perform and also i wun be able to reap wad i sow.

Anyway, he offered mi this appointment as an NDP 2IC committee and i would be assisting a LTC who is 3rd SIB Brigade Com 2IC. (woooo im working at a Bde Level) haha. The reason why he offered mi this job is because this committee is in charge of getting sponsorship.
Also, i would be able to learn some life skills like auditting and accountancy which would be useful to be when i take up my course in Accountancy next yr. Well, God really sends his blessings in disguise as i wasnt looking forward to coming to 5SIR. In the end, i realised dat God gave me a sense of purpose in coming to 5SiR as i noe there is a suitable job for me. Of cos i would still want to go 6SIR where all my friends are right now including my best friend.

By the way, my friends in 5SIR are making fun of me and started calling me Brigade 2IC juz bcos im supposed to work for him. Sigh, although it seems funny but i feel awkward when pple call mi dat. Also, they tink im some big shot posted to a Bde level cos they think i haf the potential to work in a Bde level instead of a Bn level haha. (oh pls..) i realli hope my friends can start calling mi Royston or Royce the Voice or noise. haha.

-chill-

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My 3rd day in 5SIR. Realli nothing to do ytd cos the whole day was allocated for admin so we can do our administrative stuff which we all did last Thur. It was the day i slept the most in a day since i entered army. Well, we joked abt having 14 hours of slp a day hahaz. We were so bored, we decided to go to the gym to train. Sadly, after lifting weights for 5 mins, we were told dat the gym was already booked by others to do weights training. For the first time in my life, i felt sad leaving the gym. Anyway, we were desperate and to my amazement, i actualli volunteered to participate in the orientation run which was "optional". See im so garang. Anyway im waiting for my posting of appointments. I had an S1 interview, the manpower officer. Once i told him i was distrupting from NS, he told me it was beta not to be an infantry PC. So he suggests i try to be an NDP committee 2ic assisting the BRIGADE 2IC in sponsorship. Well, it sounds boring but in actual fact, alot of accounting has to be done and i will learn alot of life skills when i enter the corporate world. I felt relieved and hope to get dat appointment even it is a staff job.

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Well my commissioning ball was held at gRaNd CoRpThRoNe orchard. Lobby was nice, met my friends there including frankie doo da deh. His date was quite friendly but i tink mine's much beta.. ooPs. Im quite sure frank will use his "s" word on me again. LOL. dINNer wasnt dat fantastic. and the performance... hmmm was somewhat out of place in the sense, it shld not haf taken place. Well, not say i enjoyed alot, the most impt thing was the company, not onli wif my mates but also my gf. She met yi kiat's date and although they met for only the first them, they could click realli well and like became best friends.. hahaz anyway i cant believe terence pang won the 1st prize for the lucky draw. talk abt life being unfair. haha nah. its all abt luck i suppose ( i choose to ignore the fact dat 9 prizes went to foxtrot and 1 went to delta) haha.

Not to mention, my ever so entertaining WSM Warrant Rajoo, or John (well, dats wad he wanted to call him when he was the emcee for the night) Some question his ability to drink as he became over enthusiastic abt the role as an emcee. Well, he entertained us wif his ever lame jokes ( luke u shld learn from him) . Also, he tries to make us feel that whatever he says is funny. All our dates juz shook their heads when he does it.

There was this VJ skit performed specially for us. Sometimes i wonder wad on earth does dat skit signify and what it represents when they performed for us. I felt it was veri out of place because the skit was abt some crazy girl who tot she had sex wif aliens and had a baby. I must say their acting skills was not bad, but i still feel they shld not perform on our comms ball. Sorry VJ actors and actress.

All in all, i enjoyed myself wif the company of my date cum gf cum future wife and not to mention, my ever so friendly friends and table mates. Chi, Linus, Jack and Thye Heng: Although i wasnt realli expected to be ur table mate, you guys were great!

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Well.. went to my new camp on thurs. It was a looong walk from the main gate to my camp.. sigh, it sorta reminded mi of the long walk from SAFTI gate to Delta wingline.It also made me realised that this long way marks the beginning of a looong journey in 5 Sr.. if my appeal fail. My first impression of the camp wasnt dat good. On the appearance, it looked quite old kinda remind me of SISPEC building where most things are kinda run down. I met Johannes at the canteen, one of my SISPEC buddies b4 i crossover to OCS. Quite happy to see him after sooo loong. He is still as shy and quiet like b4, wonder if he was too happy for words when he saw me.

The person who welcomed us in was 2LT Leonard, nice guy wif veri long hair ( i juz wonder how he managed to escape the eyes of his superior ). He was our admin officer who was an SOM downgrade haha. Cant believe he told us dat he is EXCUSE OUTFIELD cos i know the fact dat he is an SOM. We were given our bunks and it reminded mi of the BMT layout where many people squeeze into 1 bunk. Also there is no sense of privacy in the bunk as the super open windows allowed 4 levels of corridor to look into our bunks. Sigh. I guess nothing beats the OCS 2 to 1 bunk concept.

We booked out at around 1pm in preparation for the Comms Ball which would be held at Grand COrptHrOnE later in the night. Had to go prepare and pick up my date cum girlfriend cum future wife haha. So all in all, im juz glad im booking in at monday 0730hrs. Hope i dun be late if not i confirm go sign extras.. and this time is in multiples of 7!